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HFAI, Donahue says, tries to attract more low-income students to Harvard as “a conscious effort to close the widening gap in opportunity in this country—and actually —between those students who grow up with resources and those who don?...
With opposition to his program widening, Sarkozy used a speech Tuesday to French mayors to reiterate his determination to pursue the contested reforms, yet vowed "There will be neither winners nor losers." That wasn't the kind of active engagement many pundits expected in the current showdown with unions. Even...
College graduates today also have to consider a factor that Bill Gates and his classmates did not; the gap between the average salaries for corporate and non-corporate jobs is widening at an astronomical rate. “In 1972, starting salaries at Manhattan firms were up to $16,000...
Following a series of riots in 2005 that pitched impoverished township dwellers against riot police in scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, President Thabo Mbeki recognized the dangers posed by the ongoing social inequality. "The riots seek to exploit the class and nationality fault lines we inherited from our past...
Stephen King, famous for his lengthy novels, proved to be of comparatively few words at a talk about short stories last night. Asked for his advice to aspiring short fiction writers, he replied, “Write a lot and read a lot.” King came to Memorial...